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...failure of the peace-time draft to call up the extra men admitted late last spring to keep the Class of '52 at a normal level...
...Draft Falls...
...United Electrical Workers, meeting for their 13th annual convention in Manhattan, plowed straight down the Communist furrow, despite the gees and haws of the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer Jim Carey, onetime U.E. president. By overwhelming majorities, the delegates denounced the draft as "part of big business' war against the American people"; condemned the Marshall Plan as a tool of Wall Street; re-elected all their Red-minded officers...
...million. General Lucius Clay, who considers Western Germany all-important to European recovery, angrily decided that the figure was too low, that Bizonia was being treated as OEEC's ugly duckling. Lawrence Wilkinson, Clay's man in Paris, flatly refused to ratify the draft agreement...
...Montreal's 267-lb. mayor, Ca-millien Houde (who spent some of the war years in a Canadian concentration camp for advising French Canadians not to register for the draft), De Bernonville's war record didn't look so bad. Houde and his nationalist friends were cooking up a new political party, Le Parti Canadien. De Bernonville looked like just what they needed to bring French Canadian voters running. He was a Roman Catholic. He could be made to seem a martyr to Ottawa's "implacable hatred" for Frenchmen and Roman Catholics...